A LOT of people may not remember this, but Apple's Mac OS X was the first to fall last year due to a flaw in Safari (proprietary) and Windows Vista was second. Ubuntu GNU/Linux, which was there for people to crack, stayed untouched until the end and thus won. It's a similar story this year, but having already emerged victorious, Mr. GNU/Linux did not bother attending to defend its title. This is of course a mostly tongue-in-cheek statement, but nonetheless, here is the coverage from Heise:
Safari was the first to fall this week at the Pwn2Own 2009 security competition held at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada. The competition, sponsored by TippingPoint Technologies, awards a prize for each vulnerability found on various mobile phone platforms and internet browsers. Participants were invited to attack Internet Explorer 8, Firefox and Google Chrome on Windows 7 and Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X, each of which was fully patched.
Windows Trojan on Diebold ATMs
Vanja Svacjer, a virus expert for Sophos, has reported his latest find in a blog entry: a Trojan that spies on PINs. The difference is that this example specialises in cash dispensers made by Diebold, which run Windows.
"Latest iPod Suggests that Apple Still Loves DMCA-Assisted Lock-in
Back in January, we noted that despite Steve Jobs's posturing on the music DRM front, Apple remains a big supporter and user of DRM and DRM-like schemes throughout their product lines. Over at the EFF blog, Fred von Lohmann suggests another potential example. The new iPod Shuffle has no buttons; the controls are on the included headphones.